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Michelle Collins @runningastronomer.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Big news! @astroeth.bsky.social has his Nature paper on the Emergence of Globular Clusters out today! His simulations have globulars forming naturally, as well as some cool globular cluster like dwarfs! Check it out! 🔭🧪☄️ www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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The emergence of globular clusters and globular-cluster-like dwarfs - Nature

The results from a state-of-the-art suite of hydrodynamical cosmological zoom-in simulations show how globular clusters naturally emerge in the Standard Cosmology and also reveal the existence of a ne...

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Justin Read @readdark.bsky.social · 31/05/2024

Paper day! Izzy Gray proposes a new model for NSC formation in very low mass dwarfs. Model prediction: NSCs should have CMDs with >2, distinct, main sequence turnoffs. Some nearby CGs like OCen and M54 show exactly this behaviour, suggesting they could be accreted NSCs! 🔭 arxiv.org/abs/2405.19286

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EDGE: A new model for Nuclear Star Cluster formation in dwarf galaxies

Nuclear Star Clusters (NSCs) are amongst the densest stellar systems in the Universe and are found at the centres of many bright spiral and elliptical galaxies, and up to ${\sim}$40% of dwarf...

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Andrew Pontzen @apontzen.bsky.social · 03/02/2024

My final plug for this event at The Royal Institution on Monday - find out how algorithms and physics combine to teach us about the universe... www.rigb.org/whats-on/uni...

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The universe in a box | Royal Institution

Explore the future of our universe, and how scientists are using computers to unravel its mystery.

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Michelle Collins @runningastronomer.bsky.social · 15/01/2024

Interested in more than one position? No problem, apply for one and indicate that you would like to be considered for other positions in your covering letter. Come and join us! We are great 😊🔭🧪

A picture of our astrophysics group, standing in front of our teaching telescope.

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Michelle Collins @runningastronomer.bsky.social · 15/01/2024

Perhaps instead you are interested in low frequency gravitational waves from supermassive black holes? Then Alessia Gualandris has the research fellowship for you! 🔭🧪 jobs.surrey.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

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Michelle Collins @runningastronomer.bsky.social · 15/01/2024

Maybe understanding the formation of globular clusters is your jam. No problem, come and work as a research fellow with @readdark.bsky.social 🧪🔭 jobs.surrey.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

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Michelle Collins @runningastronomer.bsky.social · 15/01/2024

Hello there! Are you on the job market? Do you love astrophysics? Then how about applying for one of our 3 open Research Fellow positions at the University of Surrey? One of them is with me! Find and study dwarf galaxies with Michelle! 🔭🧪 jobs.surrey.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

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Marcel S. Pawlowski @8minutesold.bsky.social · 13/12/2023

Want to learn about astrophysics from international experts? 🔭🧪 Check out this new series of interviews shot at our IAU Symposium #IAUS379. The first video on "Dwarf Galaxies" featuring the fantastic @runningastronomer.bsky.social is online now (next one in January): www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQJI...

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The smallest galaxies in the Universe • IAUS379 | Dr. Michelle Collins

Dr. Michelle Collins, University of Surrey, UK, answers questions on dwarf galaxies, the smallest and most abundant galaxies in the Universe. Discover what t...

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Michelle Collins @runningastronomer.bsky.social · 25/10/2023

We're back with our stargazing nights at the university of Surrey! This is the first time we've been able to host one since COVID, and true to form, the skies are cloudy 😅 but, we have an excellent talk from @readdark.bsky.social to make up for it 🧪🔭

Justin at the front of the lecture theatre, giving a talk about dark matter 🔭

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 18/10/2023

We're hiring cosmology / large-scale structure postdocs at UT Austin! If you're interested in analysis or cosmological interpretation of HETDEX (BAO survey) data, or related science, please apply! More info is linked below; feel free to be in touch with me as well.

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Justin Read @readdark.bsky.social · 15/09/2023

Referee: "I feel the paper could be more concise and less repetitive. Or, to put it another way, it could be less repetitive and more concise."

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Steve Desch @deschscoveries.bsky.social · 01/09/2023

Since so many have asked, here’s my hot take on the spherules Loeb found and the manuscript he’s loudly rushed to the world. These are pretty typical cosmic spherules. Had he done the *obvious*--a control sample 100 km away from the meteor--he’d have found the same thing. 1/20

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